Dealing with the problems that technology has brought into our classrooms


How to get answers to tech questions:

Make-use-of question forum--one of the best on the web for posing questions and getting answers from experts (and semi-experts)


Hardware:
What to do for students who don't have computers--Netbook Era, and hereNetbook shopping? Here's a way to compare them.
Remote control for Mac (for advancing PowerPoint slides, for example); for PC

E-mail
What to do for students who don't have e-mail? Gmail or the many other options; filtered e-mail(kid safe)
What to do for students who always say, "I e-mailed it to you; I don't know why you didn't get it"--drop box

How do I get to documents caught in the Brookline spam filter (Barracuda)? [and other related questions]

Getting on the web at school
I can't get to the Internet from school? what am I doing wrong?

Plagiarism

How to find out if a student plagiarized from a web site--Turn It In.com; some other techniques and tools

Student access to software at home
How students can word process without having to buy (the very expensive) Microsoft Office--Google docs
How students can create PowerPoint presentations without having to buy MS Office--Presentations in Google Docs

Grading
How to figure out how to use EasyGrade Pro
How to figure out how to use X2 Gradebook

Opening docX files
How to open a .docx file--
file conversion help

Home access to the data bases in the BHS library
How do I access the passwords for the BHS Library's on-line data bases? (contact Elon Fischer for the code to access this document)

YouTube blocked or limited in school
I want to show videos from YouTube in class but I often can't get access to YouTube from my room; what can I do? Some other options